Creativity in the English Curriculum: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions

ISBN-13: 9781032152585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 184 str.

Lorna Smith

Opis

Creativity in the English Curriculum is essential reading for anyone involved or interested in the teaching of English, offering both a detailed history of how creativity has informed the tradition of teaching English, and how it should be used to position this teaching in the future.

Spis treści

Part I: The Case for Creativity  1. What is creativity and why does it matter?  Part II: Policy documents and official guidance: the English curriculum and creativity in context  2. Rooted in creativity: the development of subject English  3. The Flowering of Creative English  4. Creativity ‘cabined, cribbed, confined’: English in the National Curriculum 1989 – present  Part III: Conversations in creativity  Act 1: Why English, and what does creativity have to do with it?  Act 2: Making sense of policy  Act 3: Creating the conditions and imagining the future  Part IV: Forging connections, creating change  5. To contest or comply? Creating change-makers  6. Historical perspectives to future directions

O autorze

Dr Lorna Smith leads the PGCE English course at the University of Bristol and is Chair of the NATE Initial Teacher Education working group. She was awarded the NATE Terry Furlong Award in 2020 for the research that underpins this book.